The Architecture Forum’s Boston meeting comprised two sessions: a one-hour teleconference on Wednesday July 7, 2010, and a full day face-to-face meeting on Thursday July 22, 2010. During the week commencing July 19 in Boston, a number of Working Groups and Standing Committees also met. (Minutes from those meetings are available in the Architecture Forum member’s site under the Meeting Minutes category.)
The July 7 teleconference addressed administrative matters for the Forum. The most significant consent item was approval of those working groups who reported to continue for the next period.
The July 22 meeting was held in conjunction with the Boston Open Group Conference and Members’ Meetings. There were 19 voting members present (insufficient for a quorum). An action item was agreed to have the Forum leadership determine the procedure to consider amending the charter to require only a 5% quorum.
The Forum reviewed and approved the agenda for the meeting. New members and meeting participants introduced themselves.
The Forum Chair gave an update on the status of actioning the Forum Strategy. Significant work items include the TOGAF modeling effort which anticipates making some initial deliverables for Amsterdam.
Len Fehskens reported on the outcome of the EA definition preferences project. The integrated definition came out on top in the runoff.
Mike Lambert reported on TOGAF 9 Project Management and a description of the TOGAF ecosystem. This highlighted the impacts of a change to TOGAF, and he included a call for participation.
The Forum approved the proposal from Ron Schuldt and Mick Adams to create a TOGAF Interoperability working group. This will define a generic interoperability framework and roadmap suitable for TOGAF Chapter 29, coordinate the interoperability topic across the various working groups and projects (interoperability stakeholders) of The Open Group, and draft a set of proposed updates to TOGAF.
Jason Uppal led a discussion on how the Forum might implement the strategy item on professionalizing EA. This concluded with a proposal to create a working group to perform a formal analysis of whether or not EA is, can be, or should be a profession. This proposal was not approved by the Forum.
Jason Uppal then presented a set of possible work items for the Certification Standing Committee (CSC) for the forthcoming period. The Forum discussed this, and approved this direction for the CSC as proposed and amended by the discussion.
Mick Adams led a discussion on Adoption Metrics, resulting from an action in the previous meeting to explore the next steps after the Adoption Strategies Working Group had completed its work. The Forum approved a proposal for the creation of a Value Realization Working Group, incorporating the results of the discussion.
The meeting also included a number of informational sessions:
- Andrew Josey presented a short summary of ISO 42010 status. Input is requested on the latest draft by August 1.
- Thomas Obitz presented the status of the Banking Industry Architecture Network (BIAN) liaison.
- Chris Forde led an open discussion about concerns about the Forum. This collected issues from all participants which Chris collected and will consider for a future meeting.
